Parlor golf game



0d. 11, 1932. HALLATT 1,882,569

PARLOR GOLF GAME Filed Feb. 11. 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Oct. 11, 1932. H. H. HALLATT 'PARLOR GOLF GAME Filed Feb. 11, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Marv y fl'fldlfiatt BY W ATTORNEY;

Patented Oct. 11, 1932 'rA'ras HARRY H. HALLATT, OF WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA PARLOR GOLF GAME Application filed February 11, 1929. Serial No. 339,241.

The invention relates to indoor or parlor ball ames of that type in which a spinning top is used as the ball, which is tossed or projected by the player using suitable instrument to some desired goal. The present invention relates to a golf game and the invention consists in various novel features of construction as hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings Figure l is a plan View showing the game as laid out on a table;

Figures 2 is a perspective View illustrating a top which is spun upon a tee and is in position to be tossed or projected by use of a gplf stick;

r igure 3 1s a perspective view ofthe socket member which forms the hole for receiving the ball;

Figure 3A is a cross section therethrough; Figure 4c is an elevation showing one of the golf sticks Figure 5 is a vertical sectional section through the top and its spinning device;

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the game having all the elements thereof closed in a package resembling a golf bag.

In the playing of a golf game with a spinning top used as the ball, one difiiculty encountered is to hold the top at the point to which it is projected by the player. Thus the well known tendency of atop when spinning on a smooth surface to dance or gyrate interferes with its successful use in the golf game. I have therefore devised a construction of a mat or cover which may be applied to any smooth surface such as a table or floor and which is so constructed that the spinning top will hold its position wherever it lands. I have also discovered that this re- 40 sult cannot be accomplished by merely roughening the surface, but requires a material of a yielding nature, thus I have found that a cord netting will have all the desired characteristics and that the spinning top when landing thereon will remain substantially and will continue to spin in the one position.

The essential elements of the game are first, a fee on which the top is first spun, second, a socket or receptacle used as the hole, third,

a putting green or small area formed of netting to hold the spinning top wherever it lands, and fourth, a fabric cover which may be laid on the table and simulating the fairway. This cover is preferably provided at one end with a markingfor the placing of the tee and has the netting constituting the putting green secured thereto at the opposite end. The fairway may be formed of any suitable fabric as it is not-so essential in this to hold the top from dancing, but the putting green, as before described, should hold the top at a fixed point. Thus the player may exercise considerable skill in the putting of the top from different points on the green with the endeavor to land it'in the socket constituting the hole.

In detail, A represents a table top or other fiat area on which the game is placed, B is the fabric cover constituting the fairway which is laid upon the table top, C is the putting green formed preferably of an open mesh cord fabric sewed to the coverB, D is the socket or hole preferably formed of a sheet metal ring, E is the tee which may be raised to any desired height on a standard E and which'is provided with a fiat top cover with an open mesh cord netting E for holding the top in the position in which it is spun. The top F is of substantially spherical form but is provided with a spinning point G. Usually tops are provided with an upwardly projecting stem which is engaged by the means for spinning. As this would interfere with a ball appearance we have dispensed with the stem and substituted therefor a cylindrical socket H concentric with the axis of the point G. This socket is adapted to receive a stem I which passes through a ringJ having a coil spring K arranged there-in. One end of this spring K is anchored to the ring while the opposite end is hooked at K to engage one of a series of apertures L in the u aper face of the top. The ring J is also provideo with a latch pin J for engaging an outer annular series of apertures M in the upper face of the top, the arrangement being such that by winding the ring upon the stem I the spring K may be coiled up and placed under tension while the latch J will hold it from being released. When, however, the operator presses upon the upper end of the stem I this will disengage the latch K permitting the spring to spin the top. At the same time the stem I in the cylindrical socket II will guide the top as it drops, holding the spinning aXis vertical.

The golf sticks N which are used in playing the game closel'v simulate the various irons which are used in the regular game. However, the heads- 0 of these sticks are formed of sheet metal, being sufficiently thin to be insertable beneath the spherical portion of the top into close proximity to the spinning point. This enables the-player tolift the top and if the forward edge of the head isata proper angle, the top may be projected in the desired direction. The sticks are also preferably provided with a handle portion N. connected by a metal stem N with the headO;

T 0 package the game for shipment or for carrying from one place to another, I hav provided a cylindrical receptacle P simulating. a golf bag. The cover B may be rolled up and placed inside of the bag I and the tees,.hole socket, top and golf sticks may also be placed-within the receptacle, as indicated in Figure 6.

To playthe game, the players successively spinv their tops on the tee and then with the golf stick endeavor to project the spinning top toward the hole socket. Should the player not succeed in landing the top in the hole while still spinning, he may spin it again but this will count as an extra stroke, being equivalent to missing the ball in the regular lays." Thus the game gives scope for considerable skillon the part of the players and consequently creates a lively interest.

The-socket or holeD is designed to not only;receive the top but also to hold it from jumpingout again and to arrest its spinning movement. Thereis always a tendency for a spinning top to jump out from any enclosurerwhich contacts with its conical side. This is probably due to the fact that if the axisof the: top-is inclined the side revolvingin contact with a resistant bearing will operate as a screw to lift the whole body upoutwardly extending flanges above and below the. flange D'.- With this construction, when the top lands in the hole it will contact with the ring D which by yielding will avoid any:

tendency to lift the top out.

lVhat I claim as my invention is:

1. In a golf game, the combination with a spinning top and a golf stick for lifting and projecting said top, of a landing surface and an open mesh yieldable fabric overlying said surface.

2. In a golf game the combination with a spinning top and means for projecting the same of a fabric cover for the surface on which the game is to be played simulating a fairway, and a putting green area on a portion of said fabric surface formed of an open mesh fabric.

3. In a golf game the combination with ya spinning top and-means for projecting the same, of a raised socket member constituting the hole for receiving said top and a yieldable ring in said socket for contact withthe top.

5. In a game, the combination with a spinning; top, of a surface on which said :top may be spun and an openmesh fabric overlyin said surface for holding said top from cancmgr 6. In a game, the combination with a spinbe spun and-an open meshcord fabric overlying sald surface for holding said 'top from dancing.-

ning top, of a surface on which said top may 7. Ina game, the combination with-a spinning top and means -for-. projecting thesame, of a socket member constituting the hole for receiving the top and'a yielda'ble ringiin said socket for contactwith the top:

In testimony whereof I aflix my signaturei M HARRY HALLATT; 

